We Cant Marry Because we Speak the Same Language
No podemos casarnos porque hablamos la misma lengua
Object Details
| Subject Language | Bará Tuyuca Tucano Barasana Carapana |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119619 ailla:119787 ailla:119653 ailla:119786 ailla:274702 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | We Cant Marry Because we Speak the Same Language |
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| Place Created | |
| Date Created | 2021-06-25 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | Presentation abstract: Since the 1970s, the Eastern Tukanoan groups living in Colombia and Brazil have been known for generalized multilingualism resulting from their practice of linguistic exogamy (Sorensen 1967; Jackson 1972, 1974, 1983; Hugh-Jones 1979). These groups are patrilineal, patrilocal and, we could say, ‘patrilingual’. In a nuclear family, husband and wife must belong to different patrilineal groups and, therefore, express their affiliation through the exclusive use of their father’s language, in spite of the fact that children spend their childhood with women and learn their mother’s language first. Several issues concerning the languages involved will be examined. The belief that the father’s language is the expression of an individual’s essence, reflected in the use of the verb ‘speak’ to refer to the father’s language but ‘imitate’ for the other languages, including the mother’s - as do the most traditional groups (Pira-parana river, Colombia). Intensive language contact between groups involved in preferential alliance relationships favors linguistic variation and linguistic acculturation - as in the Barasana and Edúuria case, with ‘languages’ sharing the same grammar, differing mainly by their tonal system (Gomez-Imbert 1999). Or an extreme situation, observed in Brazil, where the father’s identity language is abandoned in favor of the Tukano language. The marriage of lovers sharing patrilinearity and ‘patrilinguality’ is forbidden, incestuous. But the issue is not as dramatic as in Shakespeare’s drama: the couple chooses exile. |
| Genres | Presentation |
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| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Gomez-Imbert, Elsa (Author) |
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| EGI-SALSA2021-sinSubtitulos.mp4 | video/mp4 | 1 |
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| EGI-SALSA2021-subtitulos.mp4 | video/mp4 | 1 |
| Exogamia_ling-EGI.pdf | application/pdf | 1 |
